Reddit debates where agent safety rules should live across tools and runtimes
kazeshadow · reddit · 2026-07-23
A Reddit post asks where safety rules should live when an agent workflow spans multiple tools and runtimes.
The author says they keep seeing the same failure mode: a workflow is safe in one agent surface, but the rules disappear when the model, MCP server, coding tool, or orchestration layer changes.
They are testing a local design that separates three things:
- an authority record for what is currently allowed
- evidence records for what actually happened
- an explicit recovery path for drift or failed checks
The goal is not autonomous permission escalation, but a bounded workflow that is easier to inspect and stop. The author asks what should be runtime-agnostic and what must remain adapter-specific when moving across Claude, Codex, MCP hosts, local models, and custom agents.
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